Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the SEM 2025 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 26th Aug 2025, 08:55:21pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: M-104/105
Marquis Level 190
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am
01D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-104/105
10:10am
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10:40am
Opening Ceremony
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm
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3:45pm
03D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm
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5:30pm
04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm
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8:00pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
8:00pm
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9:00pm
Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am
05D: AI and Ownership
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
06D: Transgressive Terrains
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Education Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm
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3:45pm
07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm
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5:30pm
08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm
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8:00pm
Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am
09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am
11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
12D: Asian Metal Scenes
Location: M-104/105